This place is worlds apart from North America
Here are a few of my observations.
Food: The portions here are much smaller but also healthier for you as they try and balance out meat, carbs and vegetables. Not in every meal, but certainly many of them.
Taxes: The tax is only 5 percent, in Canada it is 13 percent, this gives people more money for purchases and keeps more money in people’s pockets. This allows more spending to take place and gives people reward for their work encouraging a better structured economy and social system.
Transit and driving: This is killer, 1.30 to enter a station and I believe it is 30 cents per station traveled. Can get very expensive if you are traveling a lot. Also can be confusing at times, I still haven’t figured everything out.
The people themselves: The business men all wear the same pants and white striped shirts; they are like drones going back and forth to work every day. The students all wear all the same uniforms, for the most part anyways. The women dress like women, the guys ether dress for business, or like cloud from final fantasy 7, sometimes they combine the two. Well that’s not completely true, some dress rather normal, some dress hiphoppy and there is some American influence here.
Technology: For all the technology that we see on TV that comes out of Japan, people sure don’t seem to embrace it. Sure their toilets can shoot water up your anus, but 90 percent of the bikes being used are from the 80's and most are rusted to shit. Their phones aren’t much better ether, they can watch TV on the train, but as for the phones themselves, they kind of suck, and have a very limited selection. Everybody seems to have the same phone.
Rents and cost of living: Its actually quite a bit cheaper on many day to day items as well as the rent here, electronics is however more expensive, as well as many entertainment items. Essentially since there is more money here, and much more integration, people will pay more for items that are in demand, and the prices clearly reflect this.
Money: Everything is currency here, and there doesnt seem to be much fraud. Perhaps a business opportunity for anybody already making the stuff.
The focus for business is profit, plain and simple, food is probably around the same price but the portions are smaller allowing greater profit to be made over many servings, transit is much more expensive as well as taxis. The people seem to make decent money here, and they spend it equally well. American business could take a lesson or two from how things are run here.
How business is organized: Sections are reserved for certain types of stores; this creates attention and brings a reputation to the area increasing the overall business done in the area.
How society treats the homeless: It seems that in Japan, respect/money has to be earned and the homeless here have it a lot worse than they do in North America. They seem to be more instable mentally, they seem to be much dirtier and lack any means of asking for money like they have given up.
The women over here: There are some really amazing looking women over here, there are some real scary ones too but all of them seem fairly sheltered and taken care of, can’t really say the same for the guys though and the physical aspect of taking care of oneself is usually replaced with items that hide it. Glasses, hair, cool looking cloths etc. The guys here have it much worse than the women, at least in terms of physical qualities.
How information is organized in the minds of the people living here:
Basically it boils down to quality over quantity, and takes the focus of money and puts it on the experience and trying to perfect things. Get the experience right and the money will come. In North America, money is the first thing that is valued, and with it, people will buy the best things, two different ways of obtaining the same thing. This is also why North America is in a financial rut, fix how information is processed, change our priorities and things will change on a grand scale, in my opinion, Japan has got it right, and I can’t honestly tell that there was even a recession over here. People spend money like crazy
And what the hell is with pachinko, the game is retarded in my opinion. They are everywhere and popular as hell.
Here are a few of my observations.
Food: The portions here are much smaller but also healthier for you as they try and balance out meat, carbs and vegetables. Not in every meal, but certainly many of them.
Taxes: The tax is only 5 percent, in Canada it is 13 percent, this gives people more money for purchases and keeps more money in people’s pockets. This allows more spending to take place and gives people reward for their work encouraging a better structured economy and social system.
Transit and driving: This is killer, 1.30 to enter a station and I believe it is 30 cents per station traveled. Can get very expensive if you are traveling a lot. Also can be confusing at times, I still haven’t figured everything out.
The people themselves: The business men all wear the same pants and white striped shirts; they are like drones going back and forth to work every day. The students all wear all the same uniforms, for the most part anyways. The women dress like women, the guys ether dress for business, or like cloud from final fantasy 7, sometimes they combine the two. Well that’s not completely true, some dress rather normal, some dress hiphoppy and there is some American influence here.
Technology: For all the technology that we see on TV that comes out of Japan, people sure don’t seem to embrace it. Sure their toilets can shoot water up your anus, but 90 percent of the bikes being used are from the 80's and most are rusted to shit. Their phones aren’t much better ether, they can watch TV on the train, but as for the phones themselves, they kind of suck, and have a very limited selection. Everybody seems to have the same phone.
Rents and cost of living: Its actually quite a bit cheaper on many day to day items as well as the rent here, electronics is however more expensive, as well as many entertainment items. Essentially since there is more money here, and much more integration, people will pay more for items that are in demand, and the prices clearly reflect this.
Money: Everything is currency here, and there doesnt seem to be much fraud. Perhaps a business opportunity for anybody already making the stuff.
The focus for business is profit, plain and simple, food is probably around the same price but the portions are smaller allowing greater profit to be made over many servings, transit is much more expensive as well as taxis. The people seem to make decent money here, and they spend it equally well. American business could take a lesson or two from how things are run here.
How business is organized: Sections are reserved for certain types of stores; this creates attention and brings a reputation to the area increasing the overall business done in the area.
How society treats the homeless: It seems that in Japan, respect/money has to be earned and the homeless here have it a lot worse than they do in North America. They seem to be more instable mentally, they seem to be much dirtier and lack any means of asking for money like they have given up.
The women over here: There are some really amazing looking women over here, there are some real scary ones too but all of them seem fairly sheltered and taken care of, can’t really say the same for the guys though and the physical aspect of taking care of oneself is usually replaced with items that hide it. Glasses, hair, cool looking cloths etc. The guys here have it much worse than the women, at least in terms of physical qualities.
How information is organized in the minds of the people living here:
Basically it boils down to quality over quantity, and takes the focus of money and puts it on the experience and trying to perfect things. Get the experience right and the money will come. In North America, money is the first thing that is valued, and with it, people will buy the best things, two different ways of obtaining the same thing. This is also why North America is in a financial rut, fix how information is processed, change our priorities and things will change on a grand scale, in my opinion, Japan has got it right, and I can’t honestly tell that there was even a recession over here. People spend money like crazy
And what the hell is with pachinko, the game is retarded in my opinion. They are everywhere and popular as hell.
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